Looking back at the work I’ve made and put up for the exhibition, 3 out of the 4 ‘potential’ works that hadn’t yet been made have now been completed and become actualities – the seeds, the deconstructed painting, and the signs of the paradox-of-nothing. Their previous potential has been proven, by turning them into actualities. Only the inferral-of-absence photos remain on the list of potential works. Of course, this is only on my short list and potential remains all around me at all times.
The seeds are coming along well, the test piece worked remarkably well but sadly my brain was not being very creative when it decided to plant the most obvious word of all – ‘Art’ – as a test piece. Still, the potential art has now become an actuality. Since then I’ve planted more words at different rates. Meanings will change as some plants grow alone, others later grow alongside them, and later still plants begin to die. Paradoxes will appear, and disappear.
Some plants are still no closer to even sprouting, so even I don’t know the potential that is, or isn’t, in there.
